ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZATION 
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Addition built on the south side of E. C. Barber’s shop, 20 feet long and 5 feet wide. It is covered 
with two-ply paper, granite finish. Cost for material and labor, $22.50. Ten colonies are wintered inside 
this building, temperature 45 to 50 Fahr. In hot weather the side can be opened to give plenty of ventila¬ 
tion. There is also a door in each end. 
will be prepared. In very severe cold 
weather, a small fire, or heat from a large 
lamp in the room, may, perhaps, be used to 
advantage; but artificial heat in wintering 
should be used sparingly and with care, for 
oftentimes it does more harm than good. 
See Artificial Heat. 
E. C. Barber of Framingham, Mass., 
whose house-apiary is shown, thus summa¬ 
rizes the advantages of keeping bees inside 
of a building: 
I prefer the house-apiarv instead of the 
outside yard for several reasons. First, you 
can work at your bees and not be among 
those flying in the air, especially if the win¬ 
dows in the house are closed. What few 
bees fly away from any hive you are working 
on inside of the house, instead of trying to 
frighten or sting you, will fly to the window 
to get out. Second, you do not have to carry 
the hives in and out of the cellar in the 
spring and fall, or move them to their win¬ 
ter quarters. Third, your bees are always 
protected from the snow, rain, and winds. 
Fourth, they are at leisure for a flight in the 
winter any time when it is warm enough, 
such as the past few days have been, when 
the thermometer was around 70. Fifth, in 
this house-apiary I can see a big difference 
in spring brood-rearing; also protection dur¬ 
ing cold nights, when bees are working in 
sections during the summer. 
APIARY, OUT. —See Out-Apiaries. 
APIS DORSATA. —See Races of Bees. 
ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZATION.— Af¬ 
ter the reader has read the subjects of 
Drones, Queens, and Queen-rearing, he 
will fully understand that the mating of 
the drone and the queen in a state of nature 
takes place on the wing in the air, and 
never occurs inside the hive. Nature has 
seemed to design, for the purpose of 
avoiding inbreeding, that the queen shall 
find her mate in the open air, where, ac¬ 
cording to the law of chance, she will in 
all probability meet some drone not direct¬ 
ly related to her, and also one that is vig¬ 
orous, because it is only the strongest fly¬ 
ers that overtake the queen. Attempts 
have been made at various times to bring 
about fertilization within the hive or with¬ 
in some small tent connected with the hive 
entrance. But all* such attempts have re¬ 
sulted in failure, because the drones and 
the queens, as soon as they find they are 
confined in a small enclosure, will bump 
against the sides of the mosquito netting 
or wire cloth, vainly trying to escape. 
A good many years ago J. S. Davitt 
